So Visa and Mastercard have been pressuring only fans to do this. Threatening to withdraw their services.
It is extremely worrying that these credit card companies can decide what media society at large can consume.
What I am most curious about though, is why? Why do Visa and Mastercard give a shit what business their clients are in?
Do Visa and Mastercard ever face penalties for any crimes committed by users of their services?
Probably a large percentage of their users are criminal in some way.
The relationship between payment processors and Onlyfans is a lot closer than the one between them and stores/bars etc. that are selling to underaged kids. (Also underaged drinking is a lot less intensely prosecuted than underaged porn) Usually they don't have any direct relationship with the stores at all and their card processing goes through another company that provides the machines and access to the MC/Visa/et al payment processing, that's how it was with my family's stores at least when we started taking cards, the machines all came through another company and our contract was with them.
So much underage alcohol is purchased with visas and mastercards its absurd. I've never seen anyone pay cash all through college and at any given campus bar or liquor store half the kids are underage.
What I am most curious about though, is why? Why do Visa and Mastercard give a shit what business their clients are in?